the jazz fest weekend

i had a fun weekend. getting out of the house and doing things with friends really lifts my spirits. winnie, jenny and i went to see war of the worlds up by eglington on friday. wow the special fx are really seamless in this one! the whole time as i was watching i was thinking " ohhh no... ohh crap.... ohh sh*t...ooooohhhhh SH*T... SH*T SH*T SH*T SH*T!" hahaha it was a fun time.

on saturday apryl, cheryl and dee came over and we showed cheryl and dee queen st before meeting rachelle at starbucks for some girl talk... we ended up going to sephora to play with make up too hehe. wow that's a fun place... better than a candy store!!! so the three of us were those customers you hate... trying all the samples and wasting time in the store with no intention of actually buying anything. i got to do rachelle and apryl's eye makeup and that was really fun... it would be fun to be a makeup artist.



we went over to the beaches area and walked around looking for a decent restaurant and we came upon whitlock's restaurant. the menu was posted on the outside... we all agreed.. "hey this place is doable" so we lined up and got this amazing table by the front window of the restaurant... the windows were open too so the view was great and it was deffinatly entertaining to see the people from the festival all along the street. as we waited for our other friends to get to the restaurant we had appetizers and drinks and could hear the bands tuning up. we looked at the "FESTIVE MENU" which was all they were serving and the prices were at least twice what was posted outside... what a sneaky thing to do... so if no one's treating you.. treat yourself right?!?! haha

rachelle ran into her boyfriend's cousin nick and he ended up staying with us the whole time. and apryl saw her best friend ashley with her boyfriend walking on the street as we sat in the restaurant so we yelled out the window and apryl got to say hi.. that was cool.

so we walked along queen st E and listened to the performers... as the night wore on it got busier and busier. rachelle told me about this prodigy jazz player that would be here this year so wouldn't you know it as we were walking i heard this really great sax-a-ma-phone... as we got closer i couldn't see who it was... darn tall people... but eventually with some wiggling i got a glimps... it was the kid! and he was not what i had imagined at all.. he was actuallly not your stereotypical band geek or some off-kilter jazz kat... he was a cool normal teenager with board shorts and surfer shaggy blond hair. so me and all my friends started joking around about how set he is with the ladies when he grows up! haha. heck he must be beating them off with a stick now! we were all joking around like "ohh don't you wish you were 14 years old right now?" hahaha

as we walked back west toward the beginning of the festival there was this band from montreal that had the most electric sound and they drew a really huge crowd. they had a harp, drums, electric violin, and a few other instruments. they weren't jazz but they were something else very good. and that was the spot of total gridlock! it was just bodies against bodies of people trying to get from one side of the band to the other side of the band. we made it through without incident and found an ice cream parlor. i got a double scoop waffle cone... it was dee-lish!




nick had stoped to look at a cigar shop and the rest of us waited on the street outside with our ice cream and we saw some firemen collecting change for a chairity supporting child burn victims... joegina and i girlishly asked if we could take a picture with them and they were so nice about it... they were having fun tonight... you could tell cuz they were constantly being attacked by women and girls!... the smile never left their faces! haha we found a trio of pretty darn cute ones... what is it about guys in uniform.. the firemen one especially makes them seem instantly more heroic! ha!

the street car ride back to the subway was the funniest part of the night cuz rachelle forgot to get a transfer when she got on! we were in the very back of the second car and the vehicle was packed!!! the poor girl and to walk all the way to the front and all the way back to get her transfer. while she was gone winnie had to hold her camomile and honey tea and i was holding her peacock feather. as rachelle was gone all winnie could do was smell how awesome the tea was and she's not one for impulse control when it comes to yummies. so nick was egging her on to take a sip... and she did! a few actually! and we were all like looking at her in shock and laughter cuz she was so cute! when rachelle got back, as soon as she waved her transfer in front of us nick snatched a portion and ripped off the important part showing the time it's valid! we laughed so hard we couldn't breath. and we were like you have to go back and get another one! and then for some reason we started trying to talk in jamaican accents... i've already forgoten what we were talking about but then winnie said "punani" in a caribbean accent and that was it... the i-can't-breath laughter started again.

there must have been something besides honey in that tea... or perhaps our ice cream was laced? haha what a fun weekend!

posted by :: sweet layer :: @ 3:51 AM